Arley Sorg
@arleysorg.bsky.social
assoc agent, kt literary
co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine
Senior Editor, Locus Magazine
Do stuff @ Lightspeed/Nightmare, Clarkesworld, F&SF
2014 Odyssey Workshop Grad
He/Him or She/Her in queer contexts
Opinions my own
co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine
Senior Editor, Locus Magazine
Do stuff @ Lightspeed/Nightmare, Clarkesworld, F&SF
2014 Odyssey Workshop Grad
He/Him or She/Her in queer contexts
Opinions my own
just sent ~270 form rejections for Fantasy Magazine - the mag is closing and issue 100 will not be published
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
just sent ~270 form rejections for Fantasy Magazine - the mag is closing and issue 100 will not be published
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
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The reprints only special issue of @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social "Sinners, Saints, and Haints" is here!
Thank you co-editor @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social, cover artist @goblinprincete.bsky.social, the whole Fiyah team & contributors.
Get your copy: fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
#booksky #Blackbooksky
Thank you co-editor @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social, cover artist @goblinprincete.bsky.social, the whole Fiyah team & contributors.
Get your copy: fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
#booksky #Blackbooksky
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The reprints only special issue of @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social "Sinners, Saints, and Haints" is here!
Thank you co-editor @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social, cover artist @goblinprincete.bsky.social, the whole Fiyah team & contributors.
Get your copy: fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
#booksky #Blackbooksky
Thank you co-editor @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social, cover artist @goblinprincete.bsky.social, the whole Fiyah team & contributors.
Get your copy: fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
#booksky #Blackbooksky
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We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
short fic folks should read this post -
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
short fic folks should read this post -
"IT IS A VERY GOOD SIGN if you are out-of-step with a deeply toxic moment."
One of many great, quotable lines in this post - worth a read, especially if you are a writer; a lot of this probably translates to other creatives as well! Slow down. Breathe. Listen to your heart and remember your joy.
One of many great, quotable lines in this post - worth a read, especially if you are a writer; a lot of this probably translates to other creatives as well! Slow down. Breathe. Listen to your heart and remember your joy.
Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"IT IS A VERY GOOD SIGN if you are out-of-step with a deeply toxic moment."
One of many great, quotable lines in this post - worth a read, especially if you are a writer; a lot of this probably translates to other creatives as well! Slow down. Breathe. Listen to your heart and remember your joy.
One of many great, quotable lines in this post - worth a read, especially if you are a writer; a lot of this probably translates to other creatives as well! Slow down. Breathe. Listen to your heart and remember your joy.
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Poetry by Eleanor Ball & Mateo Perez Lara
Flash by Christian Emecheta & Tracie McBride
Fiction by Sunwoo Jeong & Eleanna Castroianni
Cover art by Zi Xu
Read it here!🧚🏽
Share faves with friends💞
Subscribe to create space for more awesome works by amazing folks!❤️🔥
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Flash by Christian Emecheta & Tracie McBride
Fiction by Sunwoo Jeong & Eleanna Castroianni
Cover art by Zi Xu
Read it here!🧚🏽
Share faves with friends💞
Subscribe to create space for more awesome works by amazing folks!❤️🔥
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Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
psychopomp.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Poetry by Eleanor Ball & Mateo Perez Lara
Flash by Christian Emecheta & Tracie McBride
Fiction by Sunwoo Jeong & Eleanna Castroianni
Cover art by Zi Xu
Read it here!🧚🏽
Share faves with friends💞
Subscribe to create space for more awesome works by amazing folks!❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Flash by Christian Emecheta & Tracie McBride
Fiction by Sunwoo Jeong & Eleanna Castroianni
Cover art by Zi Xu
Read it here!🧚🏽
Share faves with friends💞
Subscribe to create space for more awesome works by amazing folks!❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
The Submission Grinder
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
The November Locus aka @locusmag.bsky.social includes my interview with Eden Royce!!!
aka @edenroyce.bsky.social -
My recent Locus interviews include Ken Liu, Cadwell Turnbull, Yume Kitasei, H.E. Edgmon, Akwaeke Emezi, Rita Woods, S.A. Barnes, and more!
locusmag.com/2025/11/issu...
aka @edenroyce.bsky.social -
My recent Locus interviews include Ken Liu, Cadwell Turnbull, Yume Kitasei, H.E. Edgmon, Akwaeke Emezi, Rita Woods, S.A. Barnes, and more!
locusmag.com/2025/11/issu...
Issue 778 Table of Contents, November 2025
The November 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Joe Hill and Eden Royce. News includes the Ignyte Awards winners, Loyer’s Sturgeon Award win, the planned Baker & Taylor shut…
locusmag.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The November Locus aka @locusmag.bsky.social includes my interview with Eden Royce!!!
aka @edenroyce.bsky.social -
My recent Locus interviews include Ken Liu, Cadwell Turnbull, Yume Kitasei, H.E. Edgmon, Akwaeke Emezi, Rita Woods, S.A. Barnes, and more!
locusmag.com/2025/11/issu...
aka @edenroyce.bsky.social -
My recent Locus interviews include Ken Liu, Cadwell Turnbull, Yume Kitasei, H.E. Edgmon, Akwaeke Emezi, Rita Woods, S.A. Barnes, and more!
locusmag.com/2025/11/issu...
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quick reminder for my writers out there -
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
quick reminder for my writers out there -
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
quick reminder for my writers out there -
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
quick reminder for my writers out there -
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
(yes... YOU! 😻)
rejection
*does NOT mean*
you are a bad writer!!!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?"
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
San Francisco Chronicle: 'RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness'
'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'
By Effie Seiberg
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'
By Effie Seiberg
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness
OPINION: “According to research published by the CDC, 3 in 4 Americans have a chronic illness. That’s nearly 200 million people, and Kennedy is helping none of us,” Effie Seiberg writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?"
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
when I started editing, friends who are editors said
I'd get used to sending rejections
friends who are agents said the same
whether Fantasy Magazine or as literary agent, I never got used to sending rejections
sometimes I catch myself
procrastinating
because I just...
don't want to send them.
I'd get used to sending rejections
friends who are agents said the same
whether Fantasy Magazine or as literary agent, I never got used to sending rejections
sometimes I catch myself
procrastinating
because I just...
don't want to send them.
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
when I started editing, friends who are editors said
I'd get used to sending rejections
friends who are agents said the same
whether Fantasy Magazine or as literary agent, I never got used to sending rejections
sometimes I catch myself
procrastinating
because I just...
don't want to send them.
I'd get used to sending rejections
friends who are agents said the same
whether Fantasy Magazine or as literary agent, I never got used to sending rejections
sometimes I catch myself
procrastinating
because I just...
don't want to send them.
Read something *Fantastic* y'all! : ) More awesome reads going up on the Fantasy Magazine site!🧜🏽
Subscriptions = we get to keep doing what we do... including paying authors and creating space to showcase amazing works! If that sounds good... subscribe!❤️🔥
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Subscriptions = we get to keep doing what we do... including paying authors and creating space to showcase amazing works! If that sounds good... subscribe!❤️🔥
fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Read something *Fantastic* y'all! : ) More awesome reads going up on the Fantasy Magazine site!🧜🏽
Subscriptions = we get to keep doing what we do... including paying authors and creating space to showcase amazing works! If that sounds good... subscribe!❤️🔥
fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...
Subscriptions = we get to keep doing what we do... including paying authors and creating space to showcase amazing works! If that sounds good... subscribe!❤️🔥
fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...
It's not even noon and I already have eight scam calls
So much energy and technology is devoted to taking advantage of people, often in ways which are legal
We really have to take care of each other, support each other, and do our best to find, develop, and maintain joy
So much energy and technology is devoted to taking advantage of people, often in ways which are legal
We really have to take care of each other, support each other, and do our best to find, develop, and maintain joy
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's not even noon and I already have eight scam calls
So much energy and technology is devoted to taking advantage of people, often in ways which are legal
We really have to take care of each other, support each other, and do our best to find, develop, and maintain joy
So much energy and technology is devoted to taking advantage of people, often in ways which are legal
We really have to take care of each other, support each other, and do our best to find, develop, and maintain joy
just back from Can*Con aka @canconsffh.bsky.social - was a wonderful event, run by lovely folks! definitely recommend for writers of all career stages💖
it's been an extremely busy travel year & I'm exhausted & behind but VERY grateful to have connected with so many amazing people!❤️🔥
www.can-con.org
it's been an extremely busy travel year & I'm exhausted & behind but VERY grateful to have connected with so many amazing people!❤️🔥
www.can-con.org
Can*Con
www.can-con.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
just back from Can*Con aka @canconsffh.bsky.social - was a wonderful event, run by lovely folks! definitely recommend for writers of all career stages💖
it's been an extremely busy travel year & I'm exhausted & behind but VERY grateful to have connected with so many amazing people!❤️🔥
www.can-con.org
it's been an extremely busy travel year & I'm exhausted & behind but VERY grateful to have connected with so many amazing people!❤️🔥
www.can-con.org
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HELLO ALSO! If you are in Ottawa, we would love to see you tonight at Perfect Books for the launch of the final novella in the trilogy, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES!
The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!
The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
HELLO ALSO! If you are in Ottawa, we would love to see you tonight at Perfect Books for the launch of the final novella in the trilogy, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES!
The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!
The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!
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Tonight October 20 I’m at BookPeople in Austin, TX with Ehigbor Okosun. bookpeople.com/event/2025-1...
Martha Wells: Queen Demon
BookPeople is Texas' largest independent bookstore, located in the heart of downtown Austin. Since 1970, we've been proud to provide our community with great books, author events, children's storytimes, and a comfortable place to enjoy the reading life.
bookpeople.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Tonight October 20 I’m at BookPeople in Austin, TX with Ehigbor Okosun. bookpeople.com/event/2025-1...
SERIOUSLY happy for Shingai, who works hard on their craft and still puts their heart into the things they write!
They are also a 2x Hugo Finalist for co-editing PodCastle, a BFA finalist, have appeared on the Locus Rec List several times, and more. Don't miss out - read their work!
They are also a 2x Hugo Finalist for co-editing PodCastle, a BFA finalist, have appeared on the Locus Rec List several times, and more. Don't miss out - read their work!
The Ignyte Awards are AWESOME! Congratulations to the winners and finalists!
We are extremely happy for our Co-Editor Shingai Njeri Kagunda aka @shingai-be-like.bsky.social - who won for novelette We Who Will Not Die, and was part of two winning groups!❤️🔥
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
We are extremely happy for our Co-Editor Shingai Njeri Kagunda aka @shingai-be-like.bsky.social - who won for novelette We Who Will Not Die, and was part of two winning groups!❤️🔥
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
SERIOUSLY happy for Shingai, who works hard on their craft and still puts their heart into the things they write!
They are also a 2x Hugo Finalist for co-editing PodCastle, a BFA finalist, have appeared on the Locus Rec List several times, and more. Don't miss out - read their work!
They are also a 2x Hugo Finalist for co-editing PodCastle, a BFA finalist, have appeared on the Locus Rec List several times, and more. Don't miss out - read their work!
it's the weekend! writers - rejection *does not mean* you are a bad writer!
keep writing!❤️🔥
keep writing!❤️🔥
October 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
it's the weekend! writers - rejection *does not mean* you are a bad writer!
keep writing!❤️🔥
keep writing!❤️🔥
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On booking events, persisting through the fails, and other poet stuff. Also, please pray to the gods of air travel for me lesleywheeler.org/2025/10/10/w...
Washington-bound (the other one)
I’m packing now for 12 days in the Pacific northwest (not nearby Washington D.C., which essentially seems like Mordor now). Here’s the poetry part of my itinerary: October 16, 7 pm: Bai…
lesleywheeler.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
On booking events, persisting through the fails, and other poet stuff. Also, please pray to the gods of air travel for me lesleywheeler.org/2025/10/10/w...
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🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus
🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
October 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus
🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
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In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
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I'm popping in to #DVPit and I'm so excited! If I like your pitch, I would love it if you could submit your materials here: querytracker.net/query/kellyv...
And there is no possible way for me to see everything, so if you think we'd be a good fit please do query me when I reopen generally on Nov 1
And there is no possible way for me to see everything, so if you think we'd be a good fit please do query me when I reopen generally on Nov 1
Query
querytracker.net
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'm popping in to #DVPit and I'm so excited! If I like your pitch, I would love it if you could submit your materials here: querytracker.net/query/kellyv...
And there is no possible way for me to see everything, so if you think we'd be a good fit please do query me when I reopen generally on Nov 1
And there is no possible way for me to see everything, so if you think we'd be a good fit please do query me when I reopen generally on Nov 1
I am sometimes hired or invited to speak - from academic settings to genre events to workshops and more -
Afterwards, there are always one or two things... ALWAYS!!! ...which cause me to shake my head at myself, and spend ~48 hours thinking about how badly I messed up & what I *should* have said!😭
Afterwards, there are always one or two things... ALWAYS!!! ...which cause me to shake my head at myself, and spend ~48 hours thinking about how badly I messed up & what I *should* have said!😭
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am sometimes hired or invited to speak - from academic settings to genre events to workshops and more -
Afterwards, there are always one or two things... ALWAYS!!! ...which cause me to shake my head at myself, and spend ~48 hours thinking about how badly I messed up & what I *should* have said!😭
Afterwards, there are always one or two things... ALWAYS!!! ...which cause me to shake my head at myself, and spend ~48 hours thinking about how badly I messed up & what I *should* have said!😭